John Mellencamp, stop. You are not Woody Guthrie. You're a Springsteen wanna-be who got big when you put some Stones in your Americana, and god bless. But for the last 20-odd years you've been increasingly aching for respect and providing sociopolitcal rumination. It's been more than 10 years since you've even had the spirit for a Van Morrison cover. Do you realize you've got an album called
Life, Death, Love, And Freedom immediately following one called
Freedom's Road? An intervention is needed, and if necessary, we will file a legal injunction forcing you to rehire Kenny Aaronoff as your drummer and write at least 12 songs with the phrase "hey, baby" in the chorus that clock in at three minutes thirty max. Check
that out, Coug.
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